Water Parks

A water park is a park of pools, slides and water attractions planned as one place. Mast Parks designs water parks, from feasibility and layout to theming and operations. A water park can stand alone, sit inside a larger amusement park or be built indoors, as the project at a Mast water park in Rajasthan shows.

This page introduces Mast Parks' work on water parks: what the work involves, which projects it has covered and where to read further. Each service named here has its own page with the detail.

A water park has to work as a whole: the site, the returns, the rides, the theme and the people who run it. The attractions are water-based, which means each one has its own space needs, its own safety rules and its own pattern of use. Slides, pools and play areas suit different ages and abilities, and the park has to offer something to each group.

The first steps are the ones that matter most. Mast Parks offers water park design and water park consultants, which look at the site and the audience before any slide is placed. The water park feasibility work checks questions that a general park study does not. Each feasibility study covers resource availability, similar offerings in the market and, most importantly, the local demand for a water park and the weather conditions.

What an owner must decide first is answered by the feasibility study. Each feasibility study covers resource availability, similar offerings in the market and, most importantly, the local demand for a water park and the weather conditions.

• The site and the audience. Whether the land and the catchment support a water park, and what kind.
• The return. The investment the park needs and the return it can earn, tested before design.
• The attractions. The slides, pools and water areas that suit the audience, chosen with the client.
• The layout. How guests move between slides, pools, food areas and rest areas, and where the theme appears.
• The build. Construction-level drawings and oversight on site.
• The operation. Procedures, safety training, audits and staffing levels based on ride type and risk.

For the ride types a water park plans most often, and who each suits, see water park rides.

Mast Parks organises its work as 13 services in four stages. For a water park, the services work as follows. An owner can start at any stage, and many owners use the full set from idea to opening.

• Concept and Planning. Feasibility Studies decide whether and what to build. Financial Planning tests the return on investment. Concept Creation and Theme Development give the park its idea, story, look and mascots.
• Design and Execution. Master Planning is the blueprint, and for this park type it is offered as water park design. Architectural Designing produces the construction-level drawings, and Project Management Consultancy oversees the build.
• Rides, People and Operations. Ride and Attraction Planning selects vendors. Team Hiring and Training prepares the team. Operations Planning sets the procedures and safety.
• Launch and Growth. Marketing and Branding, Merchandising and Content and Events bring guests in and keep them coming back.

See all 13 on the services page.

A Mast water park in Rajasthan. An indoor water park with an integrated amusement park, designed to give guests shelter from the heat. The motifs of the peacock feather and the curd pot connect the park to nearby religious places without making it overtly religious. Mast Parks handled theming, naming, overall master planning, architectural design, project management, operations, hiring and training. See the project.

Water parks inside larger parks. Mast Parks has also worked on parks that have a water park alongside other attractions. Dreamasia is an amusement and water park that was re-themed around its name. Fun World brings an amusement park, a water park, an aquarium and a snow park under one theme.

See all water park projects.

Water parks are commissioned by private landowners, existing park owners, family businesses, government and tourism bodies, and temples and religious trusts. Some start from land and an idea. Others add a water park to an existing amusement park, or plan one inside a larger development. Mast Parks works across all of these starting points.

Owners get more from the first conversation when they arrive with answers, or at least with a view, on the points below. None of them needs to be settled in advance, and Mast Parks can help to settle them.

• How much land is available, and where is it?
• Do you want an indoor park, an outdoor park or both?
• Who is the audience: families, children, young adults or tourists?
• Is the water park standalone, or part of a larger park?
• What is your budget range, and over what period?

Read water park rides, how to start a water park in India, the water park business plan guide and water park project cost in India. See indoor water parks for the indoor model. To discuss a park for your site, use the contact page.

Mast Parks works with the owner at each step. The owner approves the work before it moves to the next stage, and revisions are part of the process. The owner knows the site, the region and the ambition. Mast Parks brings experience of designing and delivering parks across eight park types. The best results come when the two work as one team, with decisions made quickly and in the open.

To start a conversation, use the contact page. Mast Parks will ask about the site, the park you have in mind and where you are in the project.

A water park built without a site and audience study may be the wrong size for its catchment, or may offer slides that suit the wrong age group. One built without a master plan can end up with crowded paths between slides, rest areas too far from the water and queues that block the way to food. One opened without trained staff and written safety procedures puts guests at risk. Planning each of these in advance is cheaper than correcting them afterwards, and it protects guests.

An outdoor water park depends on the weather and the season. An indoor one can open through the year and shelter guests from heat or rain, but it has to be designed as a building, with a roof, air and light that suit water attractions. A Mast water park in Rajasthan is primarily an indoor water park, designed to give guests shelter from the heat. Mast Parks plans both kinds, and the feasibility study helps an owner choose. For the indoor model, see indoor water parks.

• Water park. A park of pools, slides and water attractions planned as one place.
• Master plan. The blueprint of the park.
• Feasibility study. A study of the space, location and audience that decides which park suits the site.
• Guest flow. How guests move through the park.
• Dark ride. A ride that carries guests through a story, usually indoors and in low light.